Of Fortune's Reversal: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

Of Fortune's Reversal: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

A brisk early November Hyde Park morning is shattered by a childâ€™s scream. How two adults react in those next few desperate moments sets the plot in motion in this â€œPride & Prejudiceâ€ alternative focusing on twenty-one year old Kitty Bennet.

â€œOf Fortuneâ€™s Reversalâ€ is a novella-length tale based upon an inversion of Mrs. Bennet's exclamation that with one good marriage, the other girls will be thrown in front of rich men. For more than two centuries, the Jane/Bingley: Lizzy/Darcy tetrarchy has been portrayed as the solution to Mary and Kitty's marriage difficulties, not to mention Mrs. Bennetâ€™s housing requirements. But, what if that was not the case?

What if Mr. Bennet dies just as Jane is receiving the Bingley sisters' invitation to dinner?

No rainy day horseback ride. No cold for Jane. No Elizabeth coming to Netherfield to nurse her elder sister...so no links forged in any way with Bingley (beyond what he felt for Miss Bennet at the Assembly) and Darcy (no fine eyes, no walk around the library, etc).

No Netherfield Ball.

No proposal from Collins because he was already wed to a shrew who convinced him to evict the Bennet women. So no trip to Hunsford cottage for Lizzy because Charlotte remains a spinster at Lucas Lodge.

Rather, the Bennet women are forced out of Longbournâ€”the older girls to Gracechurch Street and ultimately taking up employment away from the city. The two younger girls remain in Meryton with their mother, to be sent away to seminary for some much-needed formal education. But, the death of Thomas Bennet has changed more than the familyâ€™s financial fortunes. It has also bent the arc of the P&P universe.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-07-29
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-07-29
Format	Kindle eBook

Of Fortune's Reversal: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

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